Practical Strategies

No matter what career our ELA students pursue, one thing is clear – today’s employers are seeking critical thinkers, analytical readers, multi-faceted writers, and confident speakers. But as busy educators, how can we best develop these and other essential workplace literacy skills while meeting our rigorous ELA expectations?

In this NEW seminar, experienced secondary ELA teacher and national presenter,Sarah Robinson will share practical, sensible and impactful ways for developing workplace literacy. Discover effective ways to bridge the needs of tomorrow’s workplace with outstanding literacy and writing instructional strategies that will authentically motivate, engage and inspire your students.

The focus will be on practical, use-tomorrow strategies that entice your students to read, write and think by tying today’s learning to their future. From using the “elevator speech” as a teaching tool to manageable project-based learning lessons that prompt students to search, analyze and evaluate digital resources, to writing emails that would impress any future employer, your students will be actively engaged in authentic reading and writing.

Join Sarah for a day full of tested, perfected, teacher-approved ideas! You will leave this seminar with a wealth of strategies and activities perfect for strengthening the workplace literacy skills of your ELA students.

Ten Key Benefits of Attending

Highly Effective Workplace Literacy Strategies to Equip Your Students for Success in the Work World
Proven approaches for narrowing the gap between the literacy skills your students are learning in your ELA classroom, and those they will be expected to know and use in the workplace … Motivating, engaging, practical strategies for all your students – no matter what career paths they choose

Gain a Repertoire of Strategies You Can Use Across Genres
Learn a variety of impactful strategies that work well not only with informational text, but can also be carried across any genre … Engage your readers and improve their ability to make meaning of a variety of text

Deepen Critical and Analytical Thinking in Your Students
Discover easy-to-incorporate strategies that deepen your students’ critical thinking … Gain approaches to equip your students for success now and in their future workplace

Increase Student Success in Our Increasingly Diverse and Connected World
Gain analytical reading and writing workplace literacy strategies to help your students consider and respond to the diverse, authentic needs and wants of others through analytical reading and writing

Prepare Students for Success as Writers in the Workplace
No matter the workplace, writing is a requisite skill! … Strengthen student writing skills with authentic, engaging tasks that teach students to persuade, explain and convey information for specific audiences

Specific Topics

Workplace Literacy: the best strategies for developing essential reading and writing skills for the future, while increasing your students’ ELA success now

Practical ways to embed job-related text into your ELA classroom to help students maximize gains as readers and see reading as “real” and relevant

Effective, authentic ways to scaffold, develop and strengthen students’ public speaking skills in your ELA program

Ways to increase meaningful collaboration and evaluation throughout the writing process using peer groups

How to teach credibility in writing and improve students’ ability to evaluate the reliability and usefulness of information

Strategies to help students critically evaluate and provide stronger evidence in their writing
Engaging, fun ways to incorporate email in your instruction to help students develop vital reading and writing skills

A Message from Your Seminar Leader

Dear Colleague:

According to today’s employers, there is an increasing gap between the skills students are gaining in our ELA classrooms and the skills that their future workplaces demand. As increasingly busy secondary ELA teachers, we have a host of specific standards and objectives our students must meet. But what if we could narrow this gap and simultaneously achieve both aims?

As an experienced secondary English teacher, I am first and foremost realistic, and also passionate about sharing practical, effective and manageable ways ELA teachers can strengthen students’ workplace literacy skills. I want to equip you with outstanding ways that you can enable your students to not only meet your rigorous expectations, but at the same strengthen essential reading and writing skills they will need in their future workplace – no matter what career they choose.

Join me for a strategy-packed day of learning as I share dozens of outstanding ways we can easily incorporate workplace literacy skills into our ELA classrooms and make learning more enjoyable, relevant and impactful for our students. Get ready for a plethora of strategies you can immediately use to keep your ELA students engaged, collaborating, thinking, discovering, and producing! Each strategy is scaffolded and will work with all your students, including your reluctant readers and your high flyers.

My goal is to equip you with the best of all worlds: essential strategies for infusing workplace literacy in your existing ELA program while empowering your students to meet and exceed your rigorous ELA expectations.

I look forward to meeting and working with you!

Sincerely,
Sarah Robinson

P.S. As a fellow secondary ELA teacher, I promise that you can easily adapt and implement all the strategies I share – the very next day in your classroom!

Meet and Share:
This seminar provides a wonderful opportunity for participants to meet and share ideas with other educators interested in developing students’ workplace literacy skills while helping them meet rigorous ELA expectations.

Consultation Available:
Sarah Robinson will be available at the seminar for consultation regarding your questions and the unique needs of your own English/Language Arts program.

Semester
Credit Option:
Graduate level professional development credit is available with an additional fee and completion of follow up practicum activities. Details for direct enrollment with Brandman University, part of the Chapman University system, will be available at the seminar.

Meet
Inservice Requirements:
At the end of the program, each attendee will receive
a certificate of participation that may be used to verify hours of participation in
meeting continuing education requirements.